The People Have Spoken

By

John Fund

Updated Nov. 10, 2000 11:59 p.m. ET

The most consequential legal battle ever involving an election is about to be waged. Even before the results of the Florida recount were announced, Gore campaign chairman William Daley declared that "if the will of the people is to prevail, Al Gore should be awarded a victory."

Mr. Gore has dispatched a chartered plane filled with 75 lawyers and political operatives to investigate what Florida's Democratic chairman Bob Poe calls "thousands of reports" of voting irregularities. Republicans have sent...